<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp@gmail.com> wrote;</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">>> It was just a fad, in my opinion. Brains are not like digital computers.<br>>> Brains are biological organs, not fundamentally different from livers or<br>>> kidneys.<br><br>>You misunderstand the analogy. Of course brains are not digital
computers.<br></div><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container"><font size="3">You need to understand the computational model of mind. Computationalists believe the brain is best understood, even if only figuratively, as a digital computer that runs thoughts over the hardware of the brain in a manner </font>analogous<font size="3"> to how digital computers run software over hardware. That is the point of it.</font></div><div class="y_msg_container"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div class="y_msg_container"><font size="3">Gordon</font></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>